B1 · 40 Wörter
Neighbours and the shared building
The staircase, the bins, the quiet hours — the parts of German life that are shared with people you did not choose.
Most people in German-speaking cities rent a flat in a building with a shared staircase, a shared yard and shared bins, and a surprising amount of everyday vocabulary belongs to that shared part rather than to the flat itself. Two things are worth knowing before they come up: Ruhezeit, the hours when noise is not acceptable, is a real rule rather than a courtesy, and Mülltrennung, sorting waste into separate bins, is expected of everybody and is where a new arrival most often gets a knock on the door.
Die Wörter
Verb (9)
klingelnto ringVerbA2
sich beschwerento complainVerbB1
sich streitento argueVerbB1
streuento grit, to scatterVerbB2
fegento sweepVerbB1
grüßento greet, to say helloVerbA2
sich vorstellento introduce oneselfVerbA2
aushelfento help outVerbB2
abschließento lockVerbA2
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